Pedro Bonilla<\/p>\n
Professor Gieseking<\/p>\n
Extra Credit<\/p>\n
02 May 2017<\/p>\n
Director Raoul Peck filmed I am Not Your Negro. <\/em>This documentary signified James Baldwin\u2019s focus on racial justice providing viewers with Baldwin\u2019s theory on racism, and also the racial activisms perpetrated by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evan, who were all killed for going against racial oppression. The documentary first gives viewers a summation of Baldwin\u2019s life in which he was mentored by a white teacher and was exposed to real life oppression through literature. He then moved to France to escape the racial injustice but returned back to the US to fight against oppression through words. In relations to race, Baldwin explains that Malcolm X\u2019s activism included a separate nation, while Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s activism included a nation among whites and blacks. Also, Medgar Evan\u2019s was a civil rights activist who joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and fought for black individuals against the white institution. Significantly, Baldwin believed in a \u201cbrotherhood\u201d of all Americans in which both blacks and whites would identify their core morals and leave their differences aside to integrate a society.<\/p>\n Except for Baldwin, I knew these black figureheads who fought against racial oppression. I studied the historical contexts in which I believe are justifiable to their forms of activism. On the contrary, I did not understand Baldwin\u2019s activism under the guise of both races having to put their differences aside when the white race was what perpetrated racism. I think that Baldwin was trying to have both parties develop peace by setting the concept that both races admit into their flaws and compromise so that there is no one to be held accountable. Thus, I disagree with Baldwin\u2019s sayings because the notion of setting aside their differences is ridiculous when the white race frequently uses its privilege to oppress colored individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pedro Bonilla Professor Gieseking Extra Credit 02 May 2017 Director Raoul Peck filmed I am Not Your Negro. This documentary signified James Baldwin\u2019s focus on racial justice providing viewers with Baldwin\u2019s theory on racism, and also the racial activisms perpetrated by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evan, who were all killed for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-queer-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}